Al Cross | New hope on higher teacher quality for Kentucky

2:47 AM,
Sep. 16, 2012

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Al Cross, The Courier-Journal

The partisan potshots of the political season, dominated by the presidential campaigns, obscure big issues that will face the Kentucky state legislators who are elected this fall. Two of those questions have confronted their predecessors for more than a century: How to make Kentucky a better educated state, and how to help its poor Appalachian counties develop in a way that won't burden the rest of the commonwealth.

Those issues are related, but there's a new connection between them: a prospect that a relatively small group of young teachers in Eastern Kentucky can inspire their students, ...